Isaiah 64:2-3

64:2 (64:1) As when fire ignites dry wood,

or fire makes water boil,

let your adversaries know who you are, ¹ 

and may the nations shake at your presence!

64:3 When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, ² 

you came down, and the mountains trembled ³  before you.

[64:2]  ¹ tn Heb “to make known your name to your adversaries.” Perhaps the infinitive construct with preposition -לְ (lamed) should be construed with “come down” in v. 1a, or subordinated to the following line: “To make known your name to your adversaries, let the nations shake from before you.”

[64:3]  ² tn Heb “[for which] we were not waiting.”

[64:3]  ³ tn See the note at v. 1.